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The NX Acoustics musicplayer was designed to enlarge the ONE series product range with a likewise concept fulfilling less-is-more design. The design concept for the earplugs was driven by the idea of encoupling the housing from the cables influences which lead to a simplified concentrical design. Thus for the musicplayer the same idea of a concentrical layout was mandatory.

The cable connection is the central part of the musicplayer and thereby coaxially integrated. (For the use under wet conditions there is a specific earplug set available which magentically proofs the transition zone between the components.)

Equally the operation is conditioned by the concentrical layout: thus the operational components exist of two control rings. By a integrated shift-button the functions can be switched between track and volume. The hold-function can be accessed by pressing the presets additional button.

The electric racing motorbike study, AER, began with a question. What might an environmentally aware form of motorcycle racing for the future look like? How can the values of motorcycle racing be presented positively?

Motorcycle models for general use today adopt technical and design ideas from motor sports, which exert considerable influence on the buying decisions of motorcycle riders. Now it is becoming more and more important to promote sustainability without neglecting the dynamic nature of motorcycling. This is an important factor in maintaining enthusiasm for motorcycling. Thus the technical idea behind AER is based on a compact, mass- centralised unit consisting of four electric motors and their battery units. The electric motor in the front wheel is used mainly for braking and thus also for the recuperation of energy. The weight of the cycle is geared towards the front wheel, thereby allowing a long rear-wheel swing arm. This combination leads to higher traction at the back wheel and improved acceleration.

Service and maintenance are important factors in motor sports, parlicularly wheel and battery change. AER makes it easy to dismount and exchange all the heavily-used components of the bike quickly and safely from the right side. This means that just one team can quickly carry out reliable pit service. The left side of the motorbike is constructed to permit a second team to easily service the engines and chassis parts. The design of AER emphasises the key features of motor sports - efficiency and precision. The wheels are a good example of this efficient design: their lattice principle is both a visual design feature and also efficient in that it permits an intelligent use of forces and momentum in the wheel, a reduction of material and rotating mass and also improved heat dispersal. Precision is also a design feature of AER. Cladding, for example, is both formally attractive and also exactly divided into individual components.

The great influence of motor sports on product perception provides an opportunity for designers to sharpen awareness of new solutions and to build up social acceptance. So as to do justice to this responsibility and to push development forward, engineering and design must work together. The use of new electric engines also offers an opportunity to attract new customers and counter flat sales figures.

The ONE series earplugs are especially designed for the use in the context of sports, athletics and outdoor activities. Conventional earplugs are highly influenced by the contact of the cables to the clothes and the musicplayer - by this they often become loose because of the repetitive impetuses to the housings.

The earplugs are laid out to circumvent this insufficiency by avoiding momentum and external forces. To integrate this idea into the design it was necessary to uncouple the ear adaptors (which are available in different sizes - from small to large) from the housing of the technical components. The first tests with prototypes have shown the technical advisability.

iNiA is a lamp for the context of a single-user workspace. To fulfil the requirements of lighting situations during periods of work as well as regeneration periods was the objective. The opening and closing of the lamp offers the essential lighting options.

The object, with its shape reminiscent of abstract sculpture, draws its impact from the context of German industrial culture along with its mechanical aesthetic. The aim was to include an ideational aspect of design in an interior design product, in order to reach an unknown an experimental manifestation, not least relating to a recollection of the basis of our present wealth.

Oree is an electric motorbike study which zones in on the emotional interest and biking requirements of motorcyclists, while retaining a focus on technical development and formulating new and innovative approaches.

This Oree study aims to appeal to motorcyclists and technology enthusiasts and to raise awareness of alternative modes of driving among them. Motorcyclists are a large group whose relationship with their machine goes beyond mobility.

Oree is a holistic design blueprint that includes technology as an emotionally charged aspect. Environmental and safety concerns are every bit as important as the need for enjoyable biking. Good cornering is a must for motorcyclists, as is the bike's design, which in this case is based on Japanese characteristics and aims to generate a lasting impression. The higher value stability is expected to provide a greater impetus to protect scarce resources and to improve the energy balance.

FIR.S is an autonomous analysis robot especially developed for fires in high-rise buildings and industrial facilities. His job is to take care an increased evacuation efficiency, to locate shocked people and to identify and rank the risk-level of the affected area. For the use in skyscrapers he is installed in the firemen's lift.

The firmen's lift is mostly installed in the opposite direction of the evacuation lane. In case of an alarm the lift will be send up into the identified floor and intermits the robot into the level. His first job is to make sure if the alert was caused by a nonsignificant matter (like cigarette smoke) or a factual fire source - the robot passes his evaluation forward to initiate further steps and to alarm the fire brigade.

The robot has stored floormaps in his database - new and unknown modifications become captured by his HD- / IR-camera and the integrated 3D-scanner. He scans the floor for abnormal temperatures and sources of fire, for unspicious ingredients in the gas consistency and for nonsentinent and needy people. The data is logged and captured in a cartograpic view with auxiliary HD- and IR-information and will be passed forward to the firemen in their trucks.

In germany the fire brigade is committed to arrive at the fireplace within 10 minutes (after 13 minutes affected people will have fallen into unconsciousness / after 17 minutes a life-saving evacuation will not be successful anymore). At least after 10 minutes the fire truck arrives at the building - there are 3 or at the most 7 minutes left to rescue shocked people.

So our very first intent was to raise the efficiency of the evacuation by sending out firemen with a highly specific and targeted goal. In the second we saw a chance for a better postprocessing of the whole rescue service operation in order to fit the requirements of global insurance enterprises.

The lighting installation L4 was set-up especially for the 175th anniversary of the Academy of Art & Design Offenbach. The interactive installation was planned in order to stage-manage and illuminate the translucent Lounge Landscape-shapes at the main square of the atrium - a hundred of people had been expected for these open days.

The outdoor setup had to fit the requirements of temporary devices, such as: technical durability, functional reliability, temperature-stability, security in every aspect - specifically in questions of electric shocks, mechanical pass trough, humidity caused by rain and thermal fluctuation - and many more. Nevertheless the whole project had to be realised with a extremly slender budget. Thus the first idea for the installation had to be rejected.

Shortly before Osram had introduced a new dimmable compact flourescent light - Osram Dulux EL Dim 20W - which seemed ideal for this kind of energy-efficient illumination project. I got in touch with Osram and enthused them to sponsor our plan with 18 of their newly launched Dulux El Dim - due to the sponsorship one main problem had been solved.

I assigned the geometrical data of those compact flourescent lights into the CAD and designed a inhouse producible, requirement-oriented outdoor lamp. The lamp consisted of two nearly similar pieces - both were rivetted together in order to achieve a highly robust housing. A conical clamping helped to seal the whole system from humidity. The lower side was constructed similar to a parabolic torus reflector with an integrated bevelling to circumvent the necessity of a galvanic reflector coating. The upper side had to appaer formally demure and shows the unabstracted parabolic torus.

The 18 lamps have been actuated by a DMX-dimmer - before the installation to run, every channel had to be coded for every step of the sequence. The installation peformed nonstop - all the 5 days - without any troubles. Osram's energy-efficienct compact flourescent lights did their job very well - thank you!

The Nicolai Track was launched to broaden the spectrum of the Nicolai product range, to verify the customers interest and to check the characteristics of the gates carbon belt drive under continous load in a velodrome.

The Germany-based manufacture is typically known for its fondly handcrafted and precisely finished downhill oriented mountainbikes. Of course for every enterprise, and even more for manufacturers with a die-hard constituency, it is inevitable to sensitively regard the marked and the customers behaviour to modulate the strategic orientation towards expectable demands.

With the track-project the aim to think ahead and show a different way to integrate two new aspects into the Nicolai product range appeared. The frame was designed to fit the requirements of the gates drive as well as those of the velodrome. Thus the frame was laid-out for high torsional and lateral stiffness to achieve a extremely direct energy conversion and a well-defined response. In order to sustain the Nicolai-specific expression an aerodynamic revision did not take place.

The seat tube plays an integral role in the overall load transmission thus the frame was designed for an end-to-end seat mast with a integrated low offset Ritchey Stubby WCS. The handling of the bike was adjusted to fit the track-needs - thus the whole geometry and especially the angle of the headset, the seat tube, the wheel clearance, the ergonomic components and of course the Reynolds DV46 Wheelset and OUZO Pro Track Fork (not displayed) were early taken into consideration. To fit different needs and to increase the number of possible settings, some parts (like the adjustable dropouts, a spacerkit for the drivetrain and some more) have been constructed and manufactured.

The composition of the components was part of the project as well. The unusual (but to many people very appealing) aesthetics of the bike is due to the non-smoothened frame with its professionally executed welding seams. The shot-blasted frame with its titanium anodized shade contrasts in a perfect way with the high-gloss finished fork, the SRAM Force UD crank and the silk-mat UD wheelset.

A Yamaha MT-01 served as base for a lightweight, agile and handling-oriented version of this bike. The main priority for the L1.7R was to reduce the masses - especially the unsprung and rotating masses. In the second I strived for a more dynamic power evolvement with a moderare increase of engine power.

Of course I wanted to check weather the expensive OEM-offered Stage III components (including: forged high compression pistons, narrow-timed camshafts, stiffer valve and clutch springs, a new air intake system and a remapped ecu) would really work as bad as the press had tested them. After 1000 kilometres of breaking in, I fully stripped the bike of and began to rethink some main solutions in order to reduce the masses. The weigt of the L1.7R was decreased by 34 kg - the engines power was increased by 15 hp More information soon to come.

When Suzuki introduced the TL1000R on the market, shortly the first recalls worked a circuit. After a number of problems with the suspension system of the newly introduced bike, even the prestige of the fabulous engine passed by. The whole bike was laid out to fit the needs of professional world class motorsports in the international Superbike WM. The engine produced 10 hp more than comparable ducati-engines, the frame and the swingarm had several setup options, but the rear radial damper (uncommon type of rear suspension) seemed to be a problem.

In 2004 I started to find a TL1000R in its original condition to have a adequate matter for the upcoming L1R project. The first goal was to find a solution for the disqualificated damping-system; the second goal was to reduce the wet weight to a dadicated level (similar to 600cc sportbikes - with all the advantages in handling and riding dynamics); in third to elicit the engines potential in a moderate way. The weigt of the L1R was decreased by 39 kg - the engines power was increased by 14 hp. More information soon to come.

At the age of 17 I startet a first car restoration project to get in touch with automobile technique. For a while I had been fascinated about the design and the concept of the first 6-series BMW's of the early 1980's. More information coming soon.

Review: "Yet there was one electric design that stood out in our minds, the Honda Oree. A naked street bike concept, the diminutive scale model size of the Oree does not diminish its big ideas. [...]"

"Readers may remember the big Honda news at the 2008 INTERMOT Bike Show in Cologne was the unveiling of its V-Four concept bike. More akin to a sculpture than a functional ride, the wild-looking V-Four concept got top billing. Sure, the Oree is a scale model, but it looks like a more finished product and in pure creativity, the college kids may have bested Big Red at INTERMOT."

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Andre Federico Look, Industrial Designer, was born in december 1984 in Offenbach, Germany. Since he was 16 his aim was to achieve all relevant capabilities to think, develop, design and create professional products. By this he saw the need for integrating design specific as well as technical based knowledge in his educational development.

From 2004 till 2006 he studied mechanical engineering at the Darmstadt University of Technology. After the first year he switched to the faculty of industrial design at the Academy of Art & Design Offenbach to add practical design abilities to his technical background. Since 2005 Andre Look is working as a freelancer for different clients - at beginning the main focus was based in engineering and development projects. With increasing design-specific knowledge the projects focussed more an more on industrial design ventures.

In february 2010 hey finished his academic studies with the concept of an electric racingbike called Indesa AER. The concept was laid out to show up the outstanding role of integrated design solutions within a highly technified framework.

Since february 2010 Andre Look is working for different clients in diversified industrial sectors.

Feel free to get in touch if you need professional industrial design, product development or visualisation services. I have worked for numerous clients and have played integral parts in projects for companies within europe including:

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